Coral experiments

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jorjef

I doubt it was living the first night, the fact it was open means nothing. Was it responding/retracting if disturbed, unno and don't really care to sift through to see. As far as mad scientist goes I don't think Denny is a real threat in the big scheme of things. Alot of us scorched a few spiders with magnifying glasses.

well i have one polyp left , it does have a response and will close up , this was one of the first things i checked as i assumed the polyps froze in an open way but it closes and opens

out of the 4-5 polyps i have 1 left but it is ****y i really dont think its going to make it long term though the cells were to badly damaged.

so what does all this mean?

well to say that you need to run home in an hour as the water will go cold is prob abit extreme lol

how about shipping overnight vs 3 days?

well may not give any serious insight to what corals go through during the shipping process but it gave me a better idea of what extremes a zoanthid polyp can handle ....why is this important?


knowing a corals limitations can determine things like temperature needed to kill nudibranchs for example.

useless information?

not to me.......

[jorjef]

Hey Denny, lets go get a Snickers..

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by jorjef

Hey Denny, lets go get a Snickers..

i think we should lol its getting rough in here

i guess its my fault i should have made a poll lol

[Misses.ReefWars]

Originally Posted by jorjef

Hey Denny, lets go get a Snickers..

Omg....bahahaha gooder lol

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Misses.ReefWars

Omg....bahahaha gooder lol

here we go lol

[Misses.ReefWars]

here we go lol

sure sure lol

[lastlight]

denny i'd like to test one of your blue agave polyps please. i'll do this free of charge buddy =)

camera's busted though can't promise you any visual proof or evidence. this offer is time limited.

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by lastlight

denny i'd like to test one of your mohawk polyps please. i'll do this free of charge buddy =)

camera's busted though can't promise you any visual proof or evidence. this offer is time limited.

done!!

[StirCrazy]

i voted late but did so be for I read down, I voted wont survive. some people were talking about this being done in the medical field all the time but it is way different, that is an instantaneous freezing and only works on certain things, mostly single cell objects. or things that are not alive, they are part of a organism but not the whole organism. but it was neat to see what would happen as fruit flys and some types of insects will survive it so there was a chance, even thought we all know how sensitive corals are to temp change.

as for the other posts, I don't know how many frags I myself and several others have put out on the back deck to cook in the sun, just cuz it was time to trim corals and no one wanted the frags.

I guess I kinda look at it the same as trimming plants in a freshwater tank, just needs to be done once and a while when you have groth rates as fast as I used to have. guess I could have went to T5 bulbs to slow it down.....

Steve

[arrowan54]

a lid to keep evaporation down to min the salinity has to be out for this reason ?